Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The deepest fear in suburbia, never spoken aloud, is that when this epoch unravels, Suburbia’s citizens quite simply will not know how to survive… The real choice that Suburbia will face is one between fascism or self-sufficiency, which is a choice – as well – between spiritual death or spiritual renewal.
Managing waste should be a major concern for all of us – I decided to find out more about how it’s done here in Bundaberg. Why not do some research and find out waste management differs in your area?
Ralph Nader: The lost art of family traditions
Removing our kids from the front lines of climate change
Young people reading a lot less
Former professor and author David Korten told close to 300 applauding peak oil activists that they are not a fringe minority but the leading edge of a super-majority “and it’s time we start acting like it.” Korten issued his rallying call in October at the “Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions” in Yellow Springs Ohio last October.
For the past four years, Adam Grubb has been acquainting himself with the medicinal and nutritional qualities of plants that thrive on neglect, often in poor soils, on marginal land. He says his interest in weeds sprang from his work as founding editor of Energy Bulletin.
Many of the proposals made so far to deal with the crisis of industrial society have centered on massive programs with huge price tags and few options in case of failure. A look at more flexible approaches may be in order.
Our oil-based food system will run out of gas
A cause to diet for: local Scottish food
How chocolate can save the planet
China inflation up on food costs
Win-win situations? Don’t trust them, but…
Can shrunken families be reflated?
Sharon Astyk: Getting more butts in your house
Couldn’t this Green culture that we are nurturing here in the San Francisco Bay Area become part of our cultural pride and identity, that we then spread to the entire state of California? … Perhaps the Chronicle was not far off in using the headline “heartbreaking” about the Bay oil spill. As one activist pointed out, “It is in the breaking of the heart that we truly discover what it is we feel compelled to do.”
Magazine for a sustainable SE Australia
Bill McKibben interview
Managing winter energy bills
Green computing update: components
Cars out as London mayor clears way for Paris-style plage and cycle boulevards
City’s slicker: density means less impact
Who’s talking about peak oil (quotes)
How should I prepare for life without oil?
Simmons and others in the media
